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Past edition · GLOTECH 2025

GLOTECH 2025 · Las Vegas

September 16–19, 2025 · Hybrid · Hosted by the UNLV Black Fire Innovation Center with support from the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. The inaugural edition of GLOTECH.

Leadership

Chairs and keynotes

Dr. Cihan CobanogluConference Co-Chair · Virscend University
Dr. Mehmet ErdemConference Co-Chair · University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dr. Faizan AliResearch Chair · University of Galway
Dr. Bendegul OkumusResearch Chair

Keynote speakers

Dr. Minwoo LeeKeynote speaker
Dr. Ajay AluriKeynote speaker
Dr. Bobur SobirovKeynote speaker

Recognition

Award

Academic Excellence in Hospitality Innovation was presented to Dr. Yen-Soon Kim, Associate Professor and Department Chair at the UNLV William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.

Proceedings

Published record

GLOTECH 2025 papers were published jointly with GLOBE 2025 after double-blind peer review. Presenters came from 21 countries across the joint program.

Unhelkar, B., della Corte, V., Cobanoglu, C., & Erdem, M. (Eds.). (2025). Proceedings of the global conference on business and economics (Vol. 3). M3 Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5038/2641-502X-v3

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Selected papers

A sample of the 2025 program

  • 2025
    A Conceptual Study on the Impact of Different Generations of AI-Generated Tourism Content on Travel Intention
    Yagiz Efe Bulbul et al.
  • 2025
    AI for Safer Travel: Multimodal Risk Detection and Educational Support for Teenagers Abroad
    Tingting Zhang, Guangjing Wang & Wenbin Zhang
  • 2025
    AI in the Gambling Sector: Perspectives of Practitioners
    Jared Bischoff, Kasra Ghaharian & Marta Soligo
  • 2025
    AI-Enabled Crisis Management in Hospitality: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
    Burcin Turkkan Zencirli, Mehmet Altin & Fevzi Okumus
  • 2025
    Artificial Intelligence in Tourism and Hospitality Education: A Bibliometric Perspective
    Mehmet Altug Sahin & Rui Augusto da Costa
  • 2025
    Decoding Non-Verbal Communication in Guest-Robot Interactions
    Adil Masud Aman, Fei Hao & Jingxian Liu
  • 2025
    Designing Embodied Artificial Intelligence Robots for Family Dining
    Tingting Zhang, Zhao Han & Biyun Xie
  • 2025
    Forecasting Hotel Demand With Explainable AI
    Mana Azizsoltani et al.
  • 2025
    From Learning to Teaching Prompt Engineering: Exploring GenAI Pedagogy for the Next Era of Tourism Education
    Edina Ajanovic
  • 2025
    Digital Twin: How Individual Perception of the System Influences Adoption
    Desiree Manzano-Farray et al.